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This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
21 wisdom & wit from Bette Davis
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
9 other views from Ludwig Wittgenstein
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
9 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
21 wisdom & wit from Bette Davis
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
41 other wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
25 wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
21 sayings from Bette Davis
I work to stay alive.
21 other quotes from Bette Davis
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
27 sayings from Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
10 other thoughts from Booker T. Washington
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
14 thoughts from Edward Gibbon
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
12 views from Thornton Wilder
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
6 wisdom & wit from Emile Zola
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
21 wisdom & wit from Bette Davis
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
7 more wisdom & wit from Arnold J. Toynbee
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
43 more thoughts from Alexander Pope
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
8 quotes from Joseph Brodsky
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
11 views from Norman Vincent Peale
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
11 thoughts from Norman Vincent Peale
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
7 thoughts from Jerome K. Jerome
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
33 more thoughts from Thomas Huxley
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
13 quotes from James M. Barrie
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
26 sayings from Harry S. Truman
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
26 sayings from Sigmund Freud
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
26 thoughts from Sigmund Freud
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
9 views from Margaret Fuller
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
13 more sayings from James M. Barrie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
45 more thoughts from Bertrand Russell
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
3 quotes from William Moulton Marston
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
10 other thoughts from Novalis
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
23 other wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
24 more sayings from James A. Baldwin
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
3 other wisdom & wit from Henry J. Kaiser
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
46 other sayings from John F. Kennedy
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
4 more sayings from Mary McCarthy
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
18 sayings from Pearl S. Buck
We work to become, not to acquire.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
18 thoughts from Pearl S. Buck
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
3 more wisdom & wit from Irvin S. Cobb
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
59 more views from Elbert Hubbard
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
5 other quotes from Brigham Young
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
16 other quotes from Vince Lombardi
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
12 views from Marquis de Sade
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
6 quotes from Charles Kingsley
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
18 other quotes from Pearl S. Buck
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
16 other views from Vince Lombardi
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
58 other views from Henry Ward Beecher
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
31 thoughts from Helen Keller
My work is a game, a very serious game.
2 quotes from M. C. Escher
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
16 sayings from Vince Lombardi
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
26 other sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
59 other sayings from Elbert Hubbard
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
59 wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
16 views from Vince Lombardi
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
By the work one knows the workman.
15 other quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
24 other quotes from Jean Cocteau
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
10 other sayings from John D. Rockefeller
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
10 quotes from John D. Rockefeller
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
35 more quotes from Ernest Hemingway
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
14 sayings from Andre Maurois
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
31 other wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
32 views from Henry Ford
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
9 thoughts from George Sand
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
18 other thoughts from Don Marquis
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
17 other quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
4 other thoughts from C. Northcote Parkinson
Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.
5 quotes from Marc Chagall
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
19 sayings from E. B. White
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
32 thoughts from Henry Ford
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
13 more views from Herman Melville
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
16 views from Coco Chanel
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
22 sayings from William Feather
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
22 more views from William Feather
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
5 wisdom & wit from Maria Montessori
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
16 wisdom & wit from Coco Chanel
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
11 thoughts from Lucille Ball
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
6 quotes from H. P. Lovecraft
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
14 views from Ogden Nash
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
18 quotes from Mother Teresa
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
31 more quotes from Mae West
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
16 wisdom & wit from Samuel Goldwyn
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
18 other wisdom & wit from Mother Teresa
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
4 sayings from Al Capp
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
21 other views from Laurence J. Peter
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
2 more thoughts from Grandma Moses
I'm working myself to death.
4 wisdom & wit from Alan Ladd
If you want peace work for justice.
7 quotes from Pope Paul VI
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
21 wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
3 quotes from David O. McKay
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
60 views from H. L. Mencken
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
21 sayings from Laurence J. Peter
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
26 sayings from Theodor Adorno
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
36 other quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
13 views from Mahalia Jackson
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
9 wisdom & wit from John Dewey
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
8 quotes from Helen Hayes
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
8 views from W. Edwards Deming
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
16 other wisdom & wit from Paul Valery
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
6 other quotes from Lillie Langtry
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
28 more sayings from Napoleon Hill
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
3 views from Dylan Thomas
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
29 views from Pablo Picasso
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
30 more quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
4 more views from Jonas Salk
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
2 quotes from Eugene Ionesco
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
19 more quotes from Charles de Gaulle
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
11 more quotes from Henry Van Dyke
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
10 quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
78 quotes from Voltaire
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
78 other thoughts from Voltaire
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
57 more thoughts from Will Rogers
Life is too short to work so hard.
5 other sayings from Vivien Leigh
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
22 more sayings from Andre Gide
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
21 quotes from Dale Carnegie
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
2 other quotes from Soichiro Honda
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
52 quotes from George Eliot
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
52 other wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
22 quotes from Andre Gide
Will it, and set to work briskly.
29 thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
22 more quotes from Andre Gide
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
12 thoughts from James Allen
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
68 more thoughts from Samuel Butler
Work alone is noble.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
10 other quotes from Og Mandino
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
23 quotes from Walt Disney
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
2 views from Carlos Castenada
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
6 sayings from Norman Douglas
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
30 wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
12 other sayings from Frank Zappa
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
23 more sayings from Walt Disney
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Every noble work is at first impossible.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
12 more quotes from J. Paul Getty
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
8 thoughts from Stephen Leacock
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.
2 quotes from Alfred Eisenstaedt
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
3 thoughts from Maria Callas
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
18 wisdom & wit from Margaret Mead
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
30 thoughts from Gustave Flaubert
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
23 other wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
23 quotes from Henry Miller
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
12 other wisdom & wit from George MacDonald
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
23 views from Walt Disney
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
58 other thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
58 views from Thomas Carlyle
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
30 other quotes from Gustave Flaubert
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
58 views from Thomas Carlyle
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
2 sayings from Carlos Castaneda
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
58 sayings from Thomas Carlyle
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
23 more wisdom & wit from Henry Miller
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
12 quotes from J. Paul Getty
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
19 other quotes from Woodrow Wilson
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
3 more sayings from Steve Prefontaine
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
23 other quotes from Paul Cezanne
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
45 sayings from Thomas Fuller
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
6 quotes from Evan Esar
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
3 thoughts from Constantin Stanislavski
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
3 quotes from Alvin Ailey
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
13 thoughts from Alexander Hamilton
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
15 other thoughts from Albert Schweitzer
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
3 views from Danny Kaye
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
3 thoughts from Steve Prefontaine
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
20 sayings from Thomas Aquinas
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
30 sayings from Virginia Woolf
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
23 more quotes from Paul Cezanne
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
21 thoughts from Abu Bakr
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
13 more views from Chanakya
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
75 thoughts from Aristotle
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
3 sayings from Lascelles Abercrombie
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
24 quotes from Carl Sandburg
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
12 views from Thomas Merton
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
14 other quotes from Stendhal
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
11 quotes from Meister Eckhart
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
25 thoughts from Orison Swett Marden
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
3 sayings from Edward Kennedy
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
26 other thoughts from E. M. Forster
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
24 more quotes from Carl Sandburg
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
96 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
75 more views from Aristotle
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
5 other wisdom & wit from Joe E. Lewis
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
41 more views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no substitute for hard work.
23 more wisdom & wit from Thomas A. Edison
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
45 other quotes from John Ruskin
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
45 views from John Ruskin
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
8 other quotes from Charles Darwin
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
45 more thoughts from John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
2 more views from Constantin Brancusi
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
2 quotes from Laura Ingalls Wilder
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
24 wisdom & wit from James Russell Lowell
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
14 quotes from Jessica Savitch
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
26 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
5 quotes from Anna Pavlova
I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go.
14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
23 more sayings from Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
23 sayings from Thomas A. Edison
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
23 other thoughts from Thomas A. Edison
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
29 views from Arthur Schopenhauer
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
23 other wisdom & wit from Thomas A. Edison
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
6 more thoughts from Lana Turner
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
14 other views from Susan B. Anthony
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
45 more sayings from John Ruskin
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
5 wisdom & wit from Anna Pavlova
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
2 quotes from George Halas
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
14 more quotes from Susan B. Anthony
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
23 other wisdom & wit from Thomas A. Edison
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
23 other thoughts from Thomas A. Edison
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
45 views from John Ruskin
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
25 more wisdom & wit from Simone Weil
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
23 thoughts from Thomas A. Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
3 quotes from Sholom Aleichem
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
17 quotes from Tennessee Williams
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
50 sayings from Robert Frost
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
3 more quotes from Alexander Graham Bell
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
6 other quotes from Earl Nightingale
Fear God and work hard.
3 sayings from David Livingstone
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
23 views from Vincent Van Gogh
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
18 other thoughts from Joseph Campbell
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
9 quotes from Lawrence Welk
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
17 quotes from Chief Joseph
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
6 sayings from Earl Nightingale
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
16 more wisdom & wit from Michelangelo
The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
4 sayings from George Allen, Sr.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
17 quotes from Tennessee Williams
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
7 more wisdom & wit from Pearl Bailey
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
4 quotes from Maxim Gorky